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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAyn Rand was the 47%.
Lest we forget this bombshell dropped in 2010.
Ayn Rand and the VIP-DIPers
...in the end Ayn was a vip-dipper as well. An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand's law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand's behalf she secured Rand's Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O'Connor (husband Frank O'Connor).
As Pryor said, "Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out" without the aid of these two government programs...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html
Italics mine.
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Ayn Rand was the 47%. (Original Post)
Barack_America
Sep 2012
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SDjack
(1,448 posts)1. Wonder if there is a way for Paul Ryan to retroactively
deny Ayn all assistance? If anyone would do it, he would, even to Ayn. (Give her the damn coupon.)
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)3. Bootstraps, Ayn, bootstraps!
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)2. Evading responsibility for herself. Lazy looter.
jsr
(7,712 posts)4. Useless mouth-breathing parasite!